tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post5123769430721920786..comments2024-03-18T10:07:38.422+08:00Comments on Awakening to Reality: The Three Levels of "Understanding" of Non-dual AwarenessSohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-81556402437157576882012-04-02T18:37:58.034+08:002012-04-02T18:37:58.034+08:00Thusness also clarifies well about the nature of A...Thusness also clarifies well about the nature of Awareness:<br /><br />http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2009/06/bodhidharma-on-awareness-and-conditions.html<br /><br />"What's seen is Awareness. What's heard is Awareness. All experiences are non-dual in nature. However this non-dual luminosity cannot be understood apart from the ‘causes and conditions’ of arising. Therefore do not see ‘yin’ as Awareness interacting with external conditions. If you see it as so, then it still falls in the category of mirror-reflecting. Rather see it as an instantaneous manifestation where nothing excluded. As if the universe is giving its very best for this moment to arise. A moment is complete and non-dual. Vividly manifest and thoroughly gone leaving no traces."Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-41147804509641125192012-04-01T23:32:24.485+08:002012-04-01T23:32:24.485+08:00Hi, the essence of mind-manifestation/experience i...Hi, the essence of mind-manifestation/experience is luminosity (an aware presence). Its nature is empty (of inherent existence). The energy/appearance is ongoing and uninterrupted. The essence, nature and energy of mind are inseparable and co-arising. It is not the case that energy arise from essence, etc. <br /><br />Unlike Advaita, we do not posit Awareness as some truly existing substratum or source of all phenomena. The spontaneously appearing and self-releasing display is self-luminous and aware as mind itself. Mind/awareness IS the flow of phenomena, there is no mind-entity that can be pinned down apart from the flow of process in the same way there is no river-ness behind flowing, no wind-ness behind blowing, mind/wind/river are conventions but empty of inherent existence or an established or locatable self-entity, while the flowing energy is uninterrupted. <br /><br />Therefore we do not posit any self or any Self on "awareness", nothing is made ultimate or ontological, nothing is conceived as changeless or independent, all phenomena (including non-dual presence) that dependently originates are vividly present but not clung to but self-released upon inception. Rather than everything being "One Awareness", I see six streams of consciousness, in seeing just the seen (no seer), in hearing just the heard (no hearer), etc, nothing is subsumed into some changeless substratum which Alex Weith explains.<br /><br />On the difference between Advaita and our view on Awareness, you can refer to Zen priest Alex R. Weith's well-written article: http://awakeningtoreality. blogspot.com/2011/10/zen-exploration-of-bahiya-sutta.html<br /><br />This article by asunthatneversets is also good: http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2012/03/sun-that-never-sets.htmlSohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-61076863169648962532012-04-01T20:15:37.497+08:002012-04-01T20:15:37.497+08:00In Advaita, Awareness is primal. It is the fundam...In Advaita, Awareness is primal. It is the fundamental nature of everything. How does this compare to your Buddhist understanding of awareness?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com